Derelict ten meter vessel, blue hull, adrift vicinity 25-55S 162-10E at 230249Z jul
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 2404/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-07-24 00:17Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA X 58/15 230449Z JUL 15.. Issued 2015-07-23 06:09Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -25.917, 162.167. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- issued
- 2015-07-23 06:09Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-07-26 06:12Z
- authority
- NAVAREA X 58/15 230449Z JUL 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -25.917, 162.167
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN SOUTH PACIFIC. CORAL SEA. DNC 06. 1. DERELICT TEN METER VESSEL, BLUE HULL, ADRIFT VICINITY 25-55S 162-10E AT 230249Z JUL. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 260612Z JUL 15.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
6 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Derelict 76 meter barge bribie adrift in position 28-21.65S 163-06.50E at 122144Z feb2020-02-13
- Derelict 11 meter vessel, white hull, adrift in vicinity 25-31.97S 160-18.85E at 260030Z oct2019-10-26
- Derelict 12 meter S/V, blue hull, adrift vicinity 26-55S 162-10E at 232353Z jul2015-07-24
- F/V shunfa adrift vicinity 28-50S 162-50E1999-07-01
- Derelict S/V janamarie II, dismasted and adrift in 28-43S 162-50E at 202100Z nov1998-11-21
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:28Z; source collection times vary.
Derelicts
Abandoned, disabled or drifting vessels. All current derelict & adrift vessels →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.